CONTENTS

1. CordellWrightDiehl_2020_ExtantCommitment.R = R code used to produce all tables and figures in the manuscript

2. CordellWrightDiehl_2020_ExtantCommitment.csv = 977 country-year observations, representing every country that had a civil war during the post-Cold War period, with a five-year window to the end of conflicts for each set of country-year observations

- ccode: Correlates of War numeric	
- year: Year	
- location: Country name	
- civil.conflict: Dummy variable indicating whether there is an active civil conflict in the country-year unit
- year.t.5: Year at time t+5 (used to add a five-year window to the end of conflicts for each set of country-year observations)	
- acronym: Acronym of the peacekeeping mission (Diehl and Balas 2014)	
- full.mission.name: Name of the peacekeeping mission (Diehl and Balas 2014)		
- host.country: Country name of the peacekeeping mission location (Diehl and Balas 2014)
- dep.yr.start: First year of the peacekeeping mission (Diehl and Balas 2014)
- yr.end: Last year of the peacekeeping mission (Diehl and Balas 2014)	
- organization: Name of the organization responsible for the peacekeeping mission (Diehl and Balas 2014)	
- region.c: Region of the peacekeeping mission location (Diehl and Balas 2014) 	
- un.pk.mission: Dummy variable indicating whether a UN peacekeeping mission was authorized in the country-year unit 	
- nonun.pk.mission: Dummy variable indicating whether a regional/multinational peacekeeping mission was authorized in the country-year unit 	
- un.pk.operations.t_1: The total number of UN peacekeeping missions ongoing in a given year at time t-1	
- un.pk.personnel.t_1: The total number of UN peacekeeping personnel deployed in a given year at time t-1	
- un.pk.troop.personnel.t_1: The total number of UN peacekeeping troops deployed in a given year at time t-1	
- un.pk.budget.t_1: The total expenditure of UN peacekeeping in a given year at time t-1 (adjusted by the value of the US dollar in 2010)	
- un.pk.fatalities.t_1: The total number of UN peacekeeping fatalities in a given year at time t-1 	
- un.pk.malicious.fatalaties.t_1: The total number of UN peacekeeping malicious fatalities in a given year at time t-1 	
- peace.agreement.t_1: Dummy variable indicating whether there is a peace agreement in place within the country in a given year at time t-1	
- civil.conflict.year: The number of years that have elapsed since the first year of the civil conflict in a country in a given year	
- total.civil.conflicts: Total number of civil conflicts ongoing in a given year	
- previous.un.pk.operation: Dummy variable indicating whether the country has had a UN peacekeeping operation in the past
- ongoing.nonunpk.operation: Dummy variable indicating whether there is an ongoing regional/multinational peacekeeping operation in the country-year unit	
- civilian.casualties: Total number of civilian casualties in the country-year unit 	
- civilian.casualties.log: Natural logarithm of the total number of civilian casualties in the country-year unit	
- civilian.casualties.categ: Categorical variable that divides the civilian.casualties.log variable into three categories (low, medium, high)	
- battle.deaths: Total number of battle deaths in the country-year unit	
- battle.deaths.log: Natural logarithm of the total number of battle deaths in the country-year unit	
- population.log: Natural logarithm of the country's population size in a given year	
- armed.forces.log: Natural logarithm of the country's armed forces size in a given year 	
- democracy: Level of electoral democracy for the country-year unit	
- p5.alliance: Dummy variable indicating whether the country has a formal or defensive alliance with a permanent member of the UN Security Council